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03x11 - Rain on Friday

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Follyfoot". Aired: 28 June 1971 – 15 September 1973.*
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Originally inspired by Monica Dickens' 1963 novel Cobbler's Dream (republished in 1995 as New Arrival at Follyfoot); she later wrote four further books in conjunction with the series—Follyfoot in 1971, Dora at Follyfoot in 1972, The Horses of Follyfoot in 1975, and Stranger at Follyfoot in 1976.

03x11 - Rain on Friday

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down in the Middle where the wind in the

middle of a fields on the lightning tree

the SLS all torn from the day it was

born for the tree was born in a

Thunderstone grow grow the lightning

tree it's never too late for you and me

grow grow the lightning tree again into

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we down in the mid in the

window the lightning trees come you want

you want then it's up to

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youning too EAS

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it's going to

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rain you ought to be out giving Steve an

end yeah you not right leaving it all to

him you your goon oh me

yeah it's me back in it rain brings it

on rainy says it wasn't raining

yesterday I'm not here no h up here

comes

sir can't that

wait I'm sorry uncle's coming today he

likes to pay it all in a lump some has

to you mean how much is this place going

to cost him this month shh I'm trying to

add it up small fortune Albert

Tan's ill by the way what is it don't

know could be lemonius oh no I've given

her a

mash I'll get it no I I'll get

it here not now I'm getting breakfast I

just want to see tany I won't be a

minute

that's the secondly sweet people with

horses got nowhere to keep them in

Winter they should worry someone have to

tell me what to do with

ours what did you say fellow with a

couple of yers wants us to keep him

there and school them pick them up in

the spring and so bring them

along 10 quid a week

each can't be bad

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you know another month and we're going

to have to find stores for every horse

out in that

field where are we going to put

them I know what I'd

do you know Sheldon Lan those Tumbl down

Stables over the other side it's a

fellow called Chadwick hesen used to be

a jockey and a racehorse trainer

yeah there's been

away he's back now and he's going to

start training again just till he gets

going he's um he's willing to stable

with some of our

horses you've talked to

him yeah without asking

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me oh I wish it had stop

get on your

nerves makes little things seem big and

black we don't farm horses out they

belong here where

upstairs you baffle me your head's in a

cloud somewhere don't worry about

tomorrow there'll be a miracle along in

a minute there are only three horses out

there can spend the winter in the field

the rest come

in where or where are we going to put

them we're not farming them

out now why should he say you wasn't

practical staing the horses for the

winter yeah

well he has been worried he brings two

new ones in I noticed yeah but they for

schooling a't they I mean them's the

ones he wants he wants Folly foot to pay

its way no more bills for the colonel he

wants he says it's living off charity

yeah let

me I know what to do about wintering the

horses I have to talk to Uncle first

that's all you be careful girl he's

ambitious and proud he doesn't like the

colel keep dipping into his pockets all

the time Uncle doesn't mind he does you

think about it girl or you lose him

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n it's chucking it down Miss Judo didn't

it hello sluger Bill Chadwick here come

in God it's been a long time time you uh

been back long last

week not too bad was it well it's not

like him you know no no of course

not oh Dora Bill Chad Bill my boss Miss

Dora Mistress of folly foot I beg your

pardon Miss I came to see the colonel I

thought he's coming over won't be long

thank you that's the address can you

pick up a horse they expecting

you Steve's got the horse box affecting

them mother too well they have to go

back there's no room be careful girl

this one was going to be shot Slugger

it's what we're here for I said be

careful and I meant

it

yes here's those seem all

right just a thing for a day like

this I wish I didn't have to go out so

do I

I miss you

Dora I me you did you see Mr Chadwick no

I got Slugger to push him out I've got a

committee meeting that starts at 2: now

let get a move on we're considering his

application for a trainer's license

wouldn't do us meeting before the

hearing could be tricky I think

why oh I don't know just could

be yeah Steve won't leave will he don't

miss much do you below stairs man myself

knows me place don't get ideas above me

station no when you're on a good thing

that's why doesn't

Steve hi Steve Dora and I have lunch in

here we've got a lot to go through tell

Will you right

thanks do you want me no I just work

here

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what's up with

Steve a

tiff he wants to make Folly foot pay run

it as a business and

you I won't Folly foot to be as you made

it it's you it has to be what you meant

it to

be half an hour ago a woman rang her

husband's died and she wanted his horse

shot just like

that still happens you

see someone has to protect

them yes you're

right someone has to protect

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them Uncle

M can we build more Stables I thought

we'd come to that sooner or later

where along here a new

building

yes what will it cost any idea no you'll

have to get an estimate from

clar you sure you can

cope oh well hard work never harmed

anyone good idea

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Steve Steve about the year L yeah I know

Ron told

I'm not taking them back Dora I wasn't

going to say

that don't fight me Steve we fight all

the time yes but suddenly it's Suddenly

It's not fooling

anymore it's the

rain we used to believe in the same

things I haven't changed Folly foot

hasn't

what we stand for hasn't nothing's

changed

Steve only you you must be

kidding when we came here this place was

a a rich man's

Folly kindly man's

whim the kind man's gone

Dora it's different it's a

charity second hand dream

I want you and me to create something of

our own and say out tany there's money

to be made out Barney you don't earn

your

keep it would break uncle's heart I

don't think it would it's not secondhand

to me

Steve his dream is my

dream I won't do anything he wouldn't

have

done then what do do we

do build more Stables who uncle's agreed

we're getting an estimate bully for

Uncle tany may need flaming charity girl

but I

don't you're right we're not fooling

anymore I'm not spending the rest of my

life begging from your

uncle whatever we do let's please please

do it on our own create something with

our own hand hands run it earn our

bread if we can't do

that I'm sorry you have to beg without

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me God I wish it had stop raining

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it's all go is

it you know his idea do

you we choose 10 of our groty old

crumblies and we pack them off to

Chadwick Chadwick Stables them feeds

them whisper sweet nothings and we pay

him £5 per week per

crumbly 50 Quid a week it's worth a

sweet nothing or two wouldn't you say

see now he's got nothing else to live on

and where is the 50 Pig coming from I'm

glad you ask me that we bring in here 10

spanking new horses what need TR

training and we make the owners pay 10

quid per week that's 100 quid lits 50

for Chadwick 50 for us P boom

flourishing business everybody

happy oh but the best laid plans dear

dear

dear what would you say if

I told you Chadwick was an

excon

jailbird just come out 5 years in the

nick fraud jockey in Big Race Swindle

banned from race courses for

Life Training license taken

away hardly the bloke to look after old

ladyb bird a PO

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Barney hello hello Mr CLE hello it's

Dora yes Mr CLE we want to build some

more

Stables time to Chadwick arrive God

knows after the hearing I suppose what

hearing he's trying to get his license

back

back renewing it I don't know where's he

been we getting knows you all of a

sudden aren't we getting secretive of a

sudden aren't we we aren't supposed to

talk about it

there's an earing

on they got big ears have

they they'll be them now telling us to

keep our voices

down hello

food hello Mr

C I don't know don't know where she is

can

I you stay there

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no Sunday wouldn't be more convenient

nor

Monday why don't you just forget it

eh that was

C he can't manage tomorrow I told him to

forget it

steeve

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steeve you call C in spite of what I

said if you want to get rid of me girl

then tell me to my face that ways cheap

Steve

please

Steve The Chadwick idea won't work we

can't send horses there he's he's what

he's just come out of

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prison

so we don't know anything about him

except that he's been in

prison well that makes two of us

we jailbirds shouldn't touch your horses

is that it

no if he can't I

can't which way do you want it

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go cat your don't care I don't

care leave me alone

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what can I

do they're my horses it's their

home why does everybody want to change

everything everyone tells me what I

can't do slagger but no one

helps who's telling me how I can keep

them how I can keep

Steve how I can pay for things without

Uncle everywhere I turn there's people

saying no and all I want is for nothing

to change and everyone to be as they've

always

been and why oh why can't it stop

raining stop it you here stop it put

this dog come inside no you're behaving

like a small child

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we shouldn't

stop he won't go you know he's on to a

good thing he knows

it girls grow out of things don't they

they move on get

married fellas don't they decide what

they want put down roots and fix things

is the way they want

them you think he cares what you

want work it out he will be the boss

instead of

you you C don't you know his game girl

oh you're saring it aren't you a

mate we so far apart that you believe

that now it's time you were told you and

your Ambitions trying to give us the

runaround change things the way it suits

you you're an IR and the same as me and

if that hurts your pride you know what

you can do about

it who's that talking Dora Ron or

you so long as we

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know

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listen R stay out of it girl r no put

that down oh yeah I should think

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so Steve

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Steve stop

it Steve

Steve it's me it's

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run stop it

would you mind telling me what this is

all

about

well I was chasing a rainbow

Uncle trying and trying to keep Folly

foot as it's always

been but I can't

why because Folly foots

people and people change no I meant why

keep it as it's always

been it's the way you made

it

well you said you wouldn't do anything

he

didn't but just for the record nor would

I you mean farming out the horses

yes we should tell

her I can't but until she's told I've

got to take her insults and her anger

told I'm trying to be

boss told I'm just a Hired

Hand she goes around with her head in

the clouds chasing some secondhand

rainbow Dora Steve's only suggesting

something that I used to

do I don't want to

hear

Dora do you remember there's rather

Grand St laes up at my place well that's

where the baries and the ladybirds of

what 25 years ago that's where they used

to

live that's where all this started you

see I wanted to run a training

establishment too so I packed them all

off down here my real work has been

training

horses well it was what I was doing when

you arrived wasn't it and I used to pop

down here just to see that they were all

right Steve's is suggesting you do what

I did same footsteps

Dora different direction that's

all look come and meet chedrick he's a

good man and Steve's idea is just what

he needs to set him up

again oh come on

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um

sorry those things you

said was it

you or has Dora said

something it was the right

oh God it's been a terrible

day BL me Miss that's never laminitis

too many oats I'd see she'll be all

right little gentle exercise keep off

the heating Foods we have you right this

rain in no time won't

we all that

loveliness

H I've been wondering if you may made up

your mind me staing some of them for the

winter what do you

say thank

you you've got what you wanted and

you was it fair

I hate

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change stop

training it'll be all right

tomorrow you'll

see down in the With The Wind in the

west the lightning fac to the it's when

when it took the wp the terrible W of

the thunder clap grow grow the lightning

tree never too late for you and me grow

grow the lightning tree never give in

too

easily down in the the I the lightning

tree dreams come true when you want them

to if you want them to then it's up to

you grow grow the lightning tree never

give it too easily lightning

tree lightning tree he

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